On the show this week:

• Front Page
• Virtual Virtues
• Prosthetic Fallacy
• Universal Attraction

CQ: What’s one thing from today — a technology, an idiom, a cultural feature — that will survive to be recognizeable 5000 years from now — and what’s one thing that will almost make it, but not quite?

Full list of 21 articles after the jump!

• Front Page:
  • Funny, when I think with my stomach, I get *more* ill..: LiveScience – Buddha Belly: Meditation May Ease Gut Ailments
  • Is this the beginning of a (tasty) crowdsourced meritocracy?: VPR – Waitsfield Cupcake Business Is For Sale For $75 (Sort Of)
  • Are we suffereing from paranoia or just over-caution?: Talking Points Memo – The End of the Open Road: The Inside Story of How Hitchhiking Died
  • Pretty sure, we’ll no longer have any reason to have sex. (Well, maybe a few…): The UK Daily Mail – World first as SPERM is grown in a lab for the first time: Scientists claim breakthrough could give hope to infertile men
• Virtual Virtues:
  • (EXTRA) No! Yes? Maybe…: The Collegian – Am I real? Thoughts on questioning one’s existence
  • (EXTRA) Funny, my albums still play just fine..: Rolling Stone – Dead Comedians to Perform Classic Standup as Holograms
  • (EXTRA) What difference is there between this and actual reality that could also be designed?: UK Express – Our universe may be a Matrix-like computer game designed by aliens, says NASA scientist
  • (EXTRA) Answer: we get smarter.: Exchange Magazine – Nick Bostrom: What happens when our computers get smarter than we are?
  • (EXTRA) What’s the real problem with meeting a much more powerful being? The feeling of being inadequate?: The Globe and Mail – Nick Bostrom: ‘I don’t think the artificial-intelligence train will slow down’
• Prosthetic Fallacy:
  • Why do I feel like if you need brain waves reader machines to tell, then they aren’t a leader?: Discovery – (O) Brain Waves Can Tell if You’re a Leader
  • Yeah, but will it help them walk?: LiveScience – (O) High-Tech ‘Smart’ Cane Helps Blind People Recognize Faces
  • Next: carrots to make artificial eyes?: Smithsonian – (O) Veggie Power? Artificial Muscles Made From Blinged-Out Onions
  • A low-tech version of body amplification through technology.: CBC – (O) Mermaid tails propel safety concerns at Alberta pools
• Universal Attraction:
  • Ok, that’s not what they said, but I still like the title..: The Register – ISS ‘naut: How we collect our POO and DROP it FLAMING on hapless Earthlings
  • I’m torn between “It’s about time!” and “It’s a quaint idea past it’s time”: Gizmodo – Carl Sagan’s Solar Sail Is Ready For Its First Test Flight
  • Pretty sure that’s a superhero origin story..: Nature – Rogue antimatter found in thunderclouds
  • I know when *I* see spots, I clean my glasses..: Universe Today – Ceres? White Spots Multiply in Latest Dawn Photos
  • I will look forward to the future when we create one of these to test the theory..: New Scientist – Corkscrew planets spiral back and forth between two stars
  • Just imagine when we forget it’s there for 50 years, then we find it again when we visit in person..: Discovery News – Robotic Space Eel May One Day Explore Europa’s Seas
  • Combine this with the eel to get: STAR TREK: THE EUROPAN MENACE.: LiveScience – No Humans Needed: Underwater Robots Make Own Decisions
  • Is there a particularly nasty factor in Drake’s equation? Can we beat it?: EsoterX – The Great Filter: Do We Live in a Dead Universe?

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